Background
Bustany was born in Detroit to Lebanese-American parents.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Don Bustany
Edit Profile
Career
In the 1970s, Bustany was camera coordinator of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, and other Media Technology Monitor productions. Earlier he had produced local talk shows on several Los Angeles, California stations. He has a Bachelor in Liberal Arts from Wayne State University and an Mississippi in Communications from Syracuse University.
Bustany is an activist for the Palestinian right of return.
Since 1996, he has produced and hosted the radio program Middle East in Focus on KPFK, the Los Angeles station of the Pacifica Radio network. The show"s "mission is to fill the many gaps left by the mainstream media in their coverage" of the Middle East.
Foreign statements that have been critical of the Zionist Movement and Israel, he has been criticized by such organizations as the JDL and the Zionist Organization of America.
Membership
He is a member of the advisory committee of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and, in the 1990s, served for four terms as president of the organization"s Los Angeles chapter. Bustany is also a member of the board of directors of the Southern California Chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal political group.
